This is madness. If this trend for individual countries changing the rules continues, how many different sets of rules will rugby league have in years to come?

There appears to be nothing to stop, for example, the Russians, the French, the Serbs etc...all making up their own set of rules.

In fact, why stop at individual countries having their own unique set of rules. We could have Yorkshire rules, Lancashire rules, Southern England rules etc....

The game is becoming a joke. What other serious sport allows this nonsense. The game in the UK has far more serious and pressing concerns for the governing body to be prioritising (clubs in serious financial difficulties, a licencing system that is seemingly unable to carry out a basic financial audit of a clubs financial health before awarding a licence, the loss of millions in government subsidy to name just three areas in this country to be going on with).

Is there not someone in the RFL and the Australian RL Commision hierarchy who actually gives a monkeys about the wider global vision of the game? The national governing bodies of the game need to get together to firstly set down one set of rules which everyone should abide by, and secondly come up with a system (presumably similar to other sports) where suggested rule changes are looked at and either rejected or implemented globally.

Said by someone who has clearly never played the game. If you have it was probably as a prop, the Paleaaesina kind.

You try and do it and see what success rate you come back with.

Ade Gardner's try for St Helens against Leeds in March (46-6), the leap by Gardner made that try, it was perfect...the kick by Roby however wasn't great and quite a desperate play on the last. It's about the recipient of the kick, and the how the opposition's defence deals with it, not really about the kick itself.

Its still got to land in the right place, though,and in order to make it hard to take, you need to get height on it.

1. Nope, it penalises the 'attacking' team too much when the vageries of a bounce/pitch divots/swirling winds can mean the ball pulling up way short of the try line or bouncing miles over for similar power/directioned kicks.
Trying to put back rotation on a ball to hold it up and get distance over 35-40m is extremely difficult without having a player charging you down if no.2 gets the go-ahead



2. So if a defender charges down, the ball goes back toward the attackers goal line 25m and they recover it on the last, isn't the risk for open kicking massively more riskier. Will we be seeing the offside rule tightened up because that will just be a joke situation with some teams already infringing the 10 by a few yards, more so at the back end of a game..

3. Again, if we see defending teams being offside at scrums as has been the case for like forever with virtual impunity having an extra man over won't make a huge amount of difference.
Stop the defending team from moving up so quick, as in enforce the offside rule properly, retiring back the required distance behind the scrum until the ball is out and they'll be space for teams to attack, no need to have an extra loose man.

I like this, as it will help make it harder to pin a team in their own half. I prefer it to be morelike the rugby union rule, whereby when the ball runs dead in goal, the restarting team can choose a tap on the 20, or a tap where is was kicked from.
It is extremely difficult to get it to stand up in the in goal, but all too often people don't even try, they just hoof it down field as hard as they can and if it goes dead, they get a pretty good reward in a restart on the 20m.

You are right, the offside will have to be policed well, but I think it will encourage pressure on the kicker. From a speccy's POV, you want the charge down occur every time, but if the players kicking it around the half way, the defending wingers are dropped back, it may not be considered worth while to risk giving them another set of 6 by attempting a charge down - that's not condusive to entertainment, imo.

Percentage rugby has taken over at my club more than most, and its not as exciting to watch as RL should be. Whilst I love an armwrestle and seeing a team put under pressure until they break, i think the above tactics would help break down the slight monotony which is creeping into the game. All-in-all, I think they want to see more rugby around the half way line.